Rina’s Memory (edit) (log)

Rina wakes in the wrong body with cold fingers, a racing pulse, and a power imbalance that makes every step unstable. She also wakes with a perfect memory of the court tale that says this body's owner will die after playing the villain. Instead of baiting rivals and chasing status, she starts doing what she used to do best. She checks records, notices lies, and keeps people from making the same bad choices twice. That makes her hard to hate, which is a problem when the girl meant to replace her stops acting like an enemy. The one man who should have become her judge keeps watching her with the same calm eyes he used in school, and he remembers her old habits too well. Rina wants distance, bu...